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Exidia pithya
Exidia pithya is a species of fungus in the family Auriculariaceae. In the UK, it has the recommended English name of warlock's butter. It produces black, gelatinous basidiocarps (fruit bodies) and is a common, wood-rotting species in Europe, typically growing on dead attached branches of broadleaf trees, more rarely conifers. It was formerly known as Exidia nigricans and has been much confused with Exidia friesiana.
6 branches of this group, most-observed first
Exidia pithya
speciesExidia pithya
Exidia friesiana
speciesExidia friesiana
Exidia subglandulosa
speciesExidia subglandulosa
Exidia spiculata
speciesExidia spiculata
Exidia reflexa
speciesExidia reflexa
Exidia inornata
speciesExidia inornata
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1697194.